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Covid closes down Kildare food plant
In Timahoe, County Kildare, the company O’Brien Fine Foods has confirmed that 80 of its employees have tested positive for Covid-19 and that it is ...
August 07, 2020
by Irish Echo Staff
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Critical of decision not to prosecute
From left: Patrick Rooney, Hugh McCabe and Samuel McLarnon By Anthony Neeson A decision not to prosecute former RUC officers over the deaths of thr...
August 07, 2020
by Anthony Neeson
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Journalistic giant Pete Hamill dead at 85
Pete Hamill could turn raw journalism into journalistic poetry By Ray O'Hanlon The world of journalism and books, and the world generally, has lost...
August 05, 2020
by Ray O'Hanlon
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He shone a light for peace
Candles illuminate a portrait of John Hume whose funeral took place in Derry today. Pool Photo by Stephen Latimer Photography via RollingNews.ie.
August 05, 2020
by Irish Echo Staff
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John Hume's funeral takes place in his beloved Derry
The funeral Mass for John Hume was held today at St Eugene's Cathedral in Derry. Pool Photo by Stephen Latimer Photography and via RollingNews.ie. ...
August 05, 2020
by Irish Echo Staff
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Flag lowered in salute to Hume
In a salute to John Hume the Irish tricolor flies at half mast over Iveagh House, headquarters of the Department of Foreign Affairs in Dublin. Roll...
August 04, 2020
by Irish Echo Staff
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Hume family mourns, extends thanks
John Hume arriving for the final day of talks leading to the 1998 Good Friday Agreement. RollingNews.ie file photo. By Irish Echo Staff The family ...
August 04, 2020
by Irish Echo Staff
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On the road to a more peaceful future
It's April 1983 and pictured at a meeting of the New Ireland Forum are (l-r) John Hume, Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald, Fianna Fáil leader Charles Hau...
August 03, 2020
by Irish Echo Staff
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John Hume, peacemaker and Nobel laureate, dead at 83
John Hume on the final day of negotiations leading to the Good Friday Agreement in 1998. RollingNews.ie file photo. By Anthony Neeson Tributes have...
August 03, 2020
by Anthony Neeson
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Council meets after lengthy hiatus
Michelle O'Neill and Arlene Foster, appropriately socially distanced, at Friday's North South Ministerial Council meeting in Dublin. Julien Behal P...
July 31, 2020
by Irish Echo Staff
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75 Years Ago Today, An American Tragedy
Captain Charles Butler McVay of the USS Indianapolis By Ray O'Hanlon Hollywood is a lens through which history can be learned for the first time, o...
July 30, 2020
by Ray O'Hanlon
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Remembering A Civil Rights Giant
The Northern Ireland Civil Rights movement was inspired by the movement in America and this historical link was acknowledged back in 2014 when then...
July 30, 2020
by Irish Echo Staff